Region2 PAL dvdshrink .. on an NTSC player

[tek]

hi,

i'm just trying to work out whether converting a region2 DVD (PAL) with DVD Shrink would play back on an American (NTSC) dvd player.. since the region protection is removed, I imagine that this is the only thing remaining.

I'm a little confused as I guess the DVD is digital information, so perhaps the PAL/NTSC part is part of the output signal from the DVD player.. Can anyone shed some light on this ??

[setarip]

Many, but not all, newer standalone DVD players, have built-in capability to properly display both NTSC and PAL formats. You may have to access this via the player's hardware setup screen's "Display" section, which should have an "NTSC/PAL/Auto" option...

[tek]

conversion from NTSC to PAL via software

Well .. i'd like it to play on a US dvd player, so can i convert from PAL to NTSC somehow via software ?

Since I presume the stream is PAL encoded, so i'd need to decode it and reencode it to NTSC--is that correct ?

Sounding more complex by the minute ..

[shiny#3]

If your standalone is not capable of displaying Pal format
this is the only way to do it.

you have to change frame/s from 25 to 29.97 or 23,976
and resolution from 720x576 to 720x480
you can accomplish this with Tmpeg or CCE
the most tricky thing in this would be to maintain a proper aspect ratio.

I have done this with the DVDvideo "pakt der wölfe" and used
an avisynth script to do so. Since I do not know if the most
common CCE basic supports resizing.

your avisynth script should therefore contain something like this.

BicubicResize(688,480,0,0.6,0,0,720,576)
AddBorders(16,0,16,0)
AssumeFPS(23.976, true) (or) AssumeFPS(29.97, true)

incase you found out that the true filmpixels of your video
is in lets say 2.35:1 720x306 the resizing should yield in something like

BicubicResize(688,240,0,0.6,0,137,720,302)
AddBorders(16,120,16,120)
AssumeFPS(23.976, true)

maybe tmpeg has some wizard setting that accomplishes that also but I haven´t done any Pal/Ntsc conversion yet with Tmpeg!
maybe setarip could advise you on that.

good luck.

[setarip]

"Since I presume the stream is PAL encoded, so i'd need to decode it and reencode it to NTSC--is that correct ?"

Only if your US standalone DVD player doesn't have the built-in capability to properly display both NTSC and PAL formats. You may have to access this via the player's hardware setup screen's "Display" section, which should have an "NTSC/PAL/Auto" option...

Have you determined this yet?

(If it doesn't have this capability, by all means, follow "shiny#3's" directions)

[tek]

thanks..

thanks guys.. i don't have access to the dvd player so i can't test it.

sounds like it'll be easier to try and work out if it can play PAL, as there are some menus and otherwise i'd like to try and preserve--hence why DVDShrink was a great option to start with.

regards,
tek.

[setarip]

"thanks guys.."

My (Our) pleasure ;>}